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“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

frasier 7h ago

Charlie Stross 7h ago

RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/116337081981568251

Same for me, too. And Elon Musk took all the joy out of his big rocket launch (and occasional explosion) livestreams when he unmasked as full nazi in public. And the Russian space program? Dead to me.

We should just get back in the sea. Our species is done.

frasier 23h ago

Reay 1d ago

Got up two and a half hours ago.

Got the dog out for a walk.

Been home with him on my lap since then — our 40-pound lapdog — giving him all the rubs and scritching and compliments he’ll take.

We’re his third home and we know he was abused in at least one of the previous two.

I haven’t had anything to eat or drink yet, but he’s staying on my lap until he wants to leave because he needs to learn he’s unconditionally loved and the best boy.

#Dogstodon
#DogsOfMastodon

frasier 23h ago

IT Omar 😷 🔜 PaxU Jun 26, 2023

This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.

frasier 2d ago

SellaTheChemist 2d ago

Astonishing comment in the FT summarising the situation in Hormuz etc. Not sure if paywalled.
https://www.ft.com/content/77e5184d-9854-4a30-b53c-498223b436a5?commentID=7f2917fd-62f0-49de-8d44-bb5082137338

frasier 2d ago

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PetraPanda 2d ago

@noonan @MelissaBearTrix

Someting like 98% believe in a god and that theirs is the only one.

That's another benchmark for ignorance.

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Melissa BearTrix 2d ago

@noonan

That all started in the 1980's in the USA ... Dumb down the education system

Hugz & xXx

frasier 2d ago

i don't recall ever really being affected by the daylight savings time change. this year it's kicking me around the room

i assume that it is just age

#aging #daylightSavingsTime

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Janice in GA 2d ago

@noonan I'd read it before too, probably in the 80s. It was very upsetting to me when I read it then, and I really didn't want to read it again.
That said, I think it holds up reasonably well. Of course, it's dated in some ways. To me, the idea that the Catholic Church can repeat what it did in the middle ages by keeping some knowledge alive seems very much less likely now than it used to.

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Reay 2d ago

@N33R @GeoffWozniak It is an interesting, very specific set of rose-coloured glasses that some — very much not all — Americans have, where their country is the best in the world, I imagine entirely because it’s repeated so often and they haven’t objectively looked around at how things are going there vs elsewhere.

And it’s not an education thing, I don’t think, as much as willful ignorance. Earlier in the threats about invading Canada, when Canadians were pushing back on the idea hard, an American politician (whose name I wish I could remember) said that, ‘Everyone on the planet wants to be American, so Canada should feel honoured to be invited to be a part of it.’

No, sir. The VAST majority of Earth’s population doesn’t want to be American, and if you believe otherwise, you’re only kidding yourself and making yourself look foolish in front of the rest of us who know better.

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